TRADITIONAL RESOURCES

 

The Holocaust Education Committee offers a multitude of resources, including the Traveling Trunks and Speakers Bureau (outlined in this brochure), to assist in educating tolerance.

 

Speakers Bureau

 

The Speakers Bureau consists of volunteers who are willing to tell their personal stories about the horrors of the Holocaust and the results of intolerance.

 

Most of our speakers are Holocaust survivors and children of survivors. For more information please contact the Holocaust Education Committee.

For more information contact Cheryl Dritz at 614.559.3226 or cdritz@tcjf.org.

 

 

 

Traveling Trunks

 

Teacher Materials

The Curricula and resource materials are available, along with suggestions for student activities, videotapes for use in the classroom, and visual aids with explanatory notes.

 

Student Materials

Age appropriate reading materials, simulated uniforms from a concentration camp, pictures that show family and school life before the Holocaust, and maps and time lines help educate students about the Holocaust.

 

The items in the Trunk are designed to offer your students an empathizing experience.  A Trunk may be on loan to the teacher for one to two weeks at NO COST.

 

To reserve the trunks or schedule a speaker contact Cheryl Dritz at 614.559.3226 or cdritz@tcjf.org.

 

Huntington Bank supports the Jewish Community in its effort to provide continued education about tolerance, diversity and other lessons of the Holocaust to students of all ages.

 

 

Regional Holocaust Sites

Motts Military Museum in Groveport
http://www.mottsmilitarymuseum.org/

 

The Holocaust: Prejudice and Memory at the National Museum of the USAF (United States Air Force) at Wright-Patterson AF base in Dayton
“Students will tour the Holocaust exhibit and see photographs and artifacts and hear the memories of local people who personally experienced some aspect of the Holocaust. This program stresses the importance of tolerance.”
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/education/educators/handson/theholocaust.asp
http://daytonholocaust.org/exhibit.htm gives further information about the exhibit and its origins.

 

Mapping Our Tears: Located in the Skirball Museum at Mayerson Hall on the campus of Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. 3101 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220.
Mapping Our Tears is an interactive environmental theater keeping alive testimonies from World War II and the Holocaust.
http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/chhe_visit.html#mot

 

Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood, near Cleveland. 
“Opened in 2005, The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage joins an elite group of world-class institutions as a living testament to the courage and achievements of Cleveland’s Jewish community. The stories of individuals and families - past and present - come to life through state-of-the-art exhibitions, interactives and films, oral histories, photographs and artifacts. The Museum includes The Temple - Tifereth Israel Gallery, an internationally-recognized collection of Judaica, and a special exhibition gallery featuring important exhibitions of national and international acclaim.”  “The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage is conveniently located in Beachwood, Ohio, just a few miles from Interstate 271 and less than 30 minutes from downtown Cleveland.”
Educational Programs:
And Then They Came For Me…
Grades 6-12
What happens when hate is left unchecked?  Through artifacts, photographs, and video, including testimony from area Holocaust survivors, students examine the impact of racism and anti-Semitism leading to the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million Jews. Emphasis is placed on social responsibility, how individuals can make a difference and the need for tolerance in today’s world. 

 

Anti-Semitism in America
Grades 6-12
America strives to welcome all regardless of race, class, ethnicity or religion, and America has provided many opportunities for the Jewish people. But bigotry against Jews has often lurked below the surface or been expressed out loud at different times in U.S. history. Learn the forms this prejudice has taken and how Jews continue to fight against it.
http://www.maltzjewishmuseum.org/ 
 
List of locations of sculptures by Alfred Tibor.

 

Holocaust Memorial Center in Detroit (28123 Orchard Lake Road,
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
)

“Welcome to the nation's first freestanding museum, dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust in its new, expanded home. Beyond exhibits from our former facility in West Bloomfield the museum features extensive new material, much of which uses state-of-the-art display techniques, to enhance and extend the scope of our message.

The popular and effective Introduction to the new Center is our TIME LINE. This circular exhibit room directly off the lobby tracks the history of the Jewish people against major events in world history over a period of over 4,000 years.

The next area houses THE MUSEUM OF EUROPEAN JEWISH HERITAGE where the visitor can learn about Jewish culture -- religious beliefs, family/community lifestyle, education and learning, involvement in the arts -- and can appreciate the Jewish presence in Europe in the 1930s. The murals in this gallery are the work of artist Anatoliy Shapiro of Farmington Hills. Reproductions (3"x7"), suitable for framing) of his work are available in our museum shop. One wall in this room explores the darker subject of anti-Semitism as the clear omen of what is about to befall Europe's Jewish Community.

Ramps from the Heritage section lead visitors into the story of WORLD WAR II , beginning with The Rise of the Nazis. Here we are introduced to Adolf Hitler, the "Austrian corporal," and to how, under his leadership, the Nazi party was able to demonize the Jews by assigning to them the blame for Germany's humiliating defeat in World War I (1914-1918). Using a highly active propaganda machine and promising the German people that he will return their nation to its "rightful" place as the "master race" of Europe, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. He and his henchmen then successfully - and legally - institutionalized hatred, humiliation and isolation of the "racially impure" Jews and strip them of their German citizenship. The defining event of the Kristallnacht of November 1938 is explained. From this point forward, the systematic "round-up" and imprisonment of "dissident" Jews (and others) in ghettos and work camps begins.

The next section, called THE FINAL SOLUTION (In the context of the Nazi leaders' intention to annihilate the Jews of Europe) examines the process of deportation of Jews to concentration camps where they are either murdered on arrival or worked to death in subsequent months. Entering the Cattle Car exhibit, we witness the horrifying conditions forced upon the deportees. The visitor gets to feel the confinement of the crowded cattle car and watch a video of a survivor as he describes his journey and arrival at Auschwitz. After exiting the cattle car, details of the camp experience are further explained with video material narrated by survivors. We then cross the "Abyss," a walkway from which we watch graphic images of the liberation of concentration camps by Allied soldiers and the horrors they discovered.

Visitors next enter the POST-WAR WORLD section of the Center. After viewing another video program with Detroit area Holocaust survivors detailing their personal experiences, visitors are able to review various war aftermaths: arrest, trial and sentencing of Nazi war criminals. Also, Jewish camp prisoners have no homes to return to and are placed in "Displaced Persons" camps; and the establishment of the independent State of Israel and subsequent migration there.

Finally, there is the HARRY AND WANDA ZEKELMAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THE RIGHTEOUS where we honor the thousands of non-Jews who saved, or tried to save, at least one Jew, knowing that they were placing themselves in mortal danger. The stories of those persons' acts of bravery are as inspiring and uplifting as the stories of the Nazi-led murders and atrocities are horrifying and depressing. Such heroes and heroines and their families are, and always will be, honored in every Holocaust center worldwide. As it is said in the Talmud: "When someone saves a life, it is as if that person had saved the whole world."

The Holocaust Memorial Center established a Legion of the Righteous membership program in order to serve as a constructive antidote to the evils during the Holocaust. Please click here for more information on the Legion of the Righteous.

We are also pleased to announce that we have formed a pioneering Corps of the Righteous made up of Michigan students from Berkley High School and Lawrence Technological University. These students will participate in an intensive course on the Holocaust, as well as on the function and role of the Righteous before and during the Holocaust. These students will act as ambassadors to inculcate consciousness and dedication towards righteous deeds within the broad spectrum of society. In the 2007 spring semester the Holocaust Memorial Center will accept applications from other high schools and universities wishing to join the Corps of the Righteous.

A theatre and interactive terminals deal with choices one may face in life. An appropriate ending point for the tour - and also a good alternative starting point - is the MEMORIAL FLAME in the Center's lobby. This continuously-lit flame burns next to two walls - one detailing the numbers of Jews murdered by country during the Holocaust, and another listing the names of the concentration camps and massacre sites where so many of those murders took place.

The monumental accomplishment by Israeli artist Dubi Arie , "The Mission: Under the Wing of God and the Shadow of Amalek," is on exhibit daily in the HMC's auditorium. The process of creating this episodic painting spanned two decades. From the first to final brush stroke, the painting took seven years to complete. Any HMC volunteer or staff member will be happy to direct you to it. Room-size reproductions of "The Mission," suitable for framing, may be purchased in our Museum Shop. Please ask an associate there for details. More information on the artist Dubi Arie and his work is available at the mural's site or on the artist's web-site, www.dubiarie.com.

Our second floor houses an amazing multi-lingual LIBRARY . Although the collection does not circulate, copy service is available. Artist Selma Tenenbaum's work is exhibited in the Corridor Art Gallery directly outside the library.

The visitor will experience a total exposure to an entire era in human history - revealing a flourishing culture and its brutal suppression, a chronicle of admirable and heroic rescuers and abject executioners. Through our exhibits the past casts its light and shadows into the present.”

http://www.holocaustcenter.org/